That looks like so much fun! What sorts of reactions did you get from pedestrians?

Also, just a note on the polls question, the plague was called the “black death” or the “bubonic plague” but never the ‘black plague”. My history teacher used to correct us on that all the time and now it’s been quite thoroughly drilled into my head.

People in Wellington are too sophisticated. They just pretend that they are too cool to notice the lady in 18th century dress/the grim reaper/the giant chicken/Orlando Bloom walking down the street. You see the flicker of registration, and then the carefully composed face!